Anna Winger (née LeVine; born 1970) is an American writer, producer, screenwriter, and photographer who lives in Berlin, Germany. She is co-creator of the television dramas Deutschland 83, Deutschland 86, Deutschland 89, and Unorthodox and the limited series Transatlantic. She is the founder of the Berlin production company, Studio Airlift.
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Early life and education
Winger grew up in Massachusetts. Her parents are anthropologists, and their work took their family to live in Kenya and Mexico for extended periods. She is Jewish.
She graduated from Columbia University in 1993.
Career
Before she started writing, Winger worked as a professional photographer for more than a decade.
Winger's first novel, This Must Be the Place, was published in 2008 by Riverhead Books.
Her personal essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Condé Nast Traveler, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and Süddeutsche Zeitung. Winger's radio series for NPR Worldwide, Berlin Stories, ran from 2009 to 2013.
